wilson



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Patented sept. 18, 1888.

. (No Model.)

I J. B. WILSON.

VBNBEB.. lNO. 389,624.

N. PETERS. Pngwumosnpher, wumngwn, D. c.

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Patented v4.SeptlV 1.8,` A18588.

J. B.k WILSON. VBNEER.

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UNITED STATES f JOHN B. WILSON, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

PATENT OFFICE.

' VENEER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentlNo. 389,624, datedSeptember 18, 1888. Application filed` October 8,*1837. ScrIalNo.251.797. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it knownl that I, JOHN B. WILSON, of the city, county, and State ofNew York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Veneers,of which the following is a full,

iract, and clear description, reference being had to theaccompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure l is a sectional or edge view of one of myimproved veneers. Fig. 2 is aperspective view of same. Fig. 3 is an edgeor sectional view of another one of my said veneers having irregularcorrugations. Fig. 4 is an end View of a knife and accompanyingmachinery adapted to produce my improved veneers. Fig. 5 is a front viewof apart of Fig. 4, showing side view of the end presented in Fig. 4Land the remainder of the apparatus broken away, as being unessential todescription.

`My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in the manufactureof veneers.

Letters Patent for an improved veneer have been heretofore granted tome, No. 73,421. My present invention constitutes au improvement uponthat described in said patent. By my said former invention I produced aveneer presenting'a much more rich or complicated figure77 of grain thancould be produced by the precedent method of cutting the veneer fromthelog by means of astraight or flat cnt. For the latter I substituted awaved, crimped, or corrugated cut; but a veneer produced by such wave'd,crimped, or corrugated cut, as described in my said former patent, andas heretofore practiced by myself, is open to the objection that itoften presents in parallel and unnatural looking stripes over itssurface those portions of the figure of the wood which are the mostenriched by such cut. Such cuts, whose waves or corrugations arestraight and parallel, frequently produce a veneer whose grain will atthe tops and in the bottoms of the corrugations, as at A and B in thedrawings, approximate closely to the ligure of grain produced by anordinary straight and level cut, while the grain produced by thatportion of the out extending between such top and bottom will, inasmuchas it separates the veneer from the log at a greater or less angle, asat C C in the drawings, more or less vary from the appearance of thegrain produced by such straight cut.

The enrichment of the appearance of the grain produced by my formerinvention has been great; but the said uniformity of yariations hasproved objectionable. Ihe object of my present invention is to remedythis defect yand to produce a veneer the grain of which shall be vastlyricher in appearance than that of a veneer produced by either a straightor a merely corrugated cut, and in which the variation and enrichment ofthe grain shall be so wavy and irregular as to more closely simulatenature. I attain this object by means of my invention, which consists inthe production, as a new article of manufacture, of a veneer havingsinuous waves, crimps, or corrugations A and B, as shown in Fig. 2,which is a p erspective view of a vportion of one of my 1mproved veneersas same is cut from the log and prior to its being pressed out in theusual and well-known manner for application to another shaped surface.

In the production of my said improved veneers I propose to make use ofmachinery and processes which will become the subject of a subsequentapplication for Letters Patent, inasmuch as I do not here wish to beconfined to any particular instrument, machine, or process of cutting mysaid improved veneers, as any apparatus which may be found expedient maybe used to produce them, and a variety of processes might be employedwith varying success. In order, however, that one method at least ofproducing my said improved veneers may be here described, I haveillustrated same by one arrangementof knife and accompanying mechanicalparts, which is competent to produce the result desired.

It will be seen that byimparting sinuosity` to the corrugations in thedirection of the latters length the irregularity and variety of theappearance of the grain throughout the finished veneer is increased anda veneer producedof entirely different and greatly improved appearanceas compared with that secured by said former Letters Patent. I alsofurther add to the appearance of the figure of the grain by varying thedepth,relative to each other, of each wave, crimp, or corrugation, as

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illustrated by the sectional View7 Fig'. 3. By means of combining,r thesaid sinnosities with such Variations in depth of corrugations infinitevariety in the appearance of thc grain may be secured.

My improved veneer may be cut,as aforesaid, lengthwise of, crosswise of,or at any intermediate angle with the grain of the log.

As in the case of my said former invention, I propose generally in theuse of my improved veneers to press them out flat to apply to planesurfaces; but they may be made, adapted, and applied to corrugated orotherwise shaped sur faces with perfect facility, as will be understoodby those familiar with the manufacture and use o1" Veneers.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

JOHN B. WILSON.

\Vitnesses:

WM. Co'r'rEn DICK, WM. TRAVERS J EaoirE.

